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Mo Yan's Polarizations: An Interpretation Of HisBig Breasts And Wide Hips, Yong Zhao
Mo Yan's Polarizations: An Interpretation Of HisBig Breasts And Wide Hips, Yong Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Before writing Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Mo Yan has already formed a fixed mode of polarized thinking and perception, and the mode is reflected in his choice of subject matter. One the hand, he dredges from memorized history and writes with a confirmative force; on the other hand, he criticizes the realistic history and writes with a negative attitude. Big Breasts and Wide Hips displays as the reasonable extension of both polarities and shows that it is both a grace deconstruction of the memorized history and a parody of the realistic history. The characters are designed to fall into …
On Liu Gangji's Practical Ontological Aesthetics As An Advance Of Practical Aesthetics, Liyuan Zhu, Wenying Zhang
On Liu Gangji's Practical Ontological Aesthetics As An Advance Of Practical Aesthetics, Liyuan Zhu, Wenying Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In 1980s, Liu Gangji put forward and established practical ontological aesthetics as a result of reflection and critique of mechanistic and perceptual materialism. He re-interpreted the Marxist view of practice as that which is participated by both the subject and the object, and elevated practice from epistemological level to ontological level. In this way, his conceptualization surpassed the dichotomy between subject and object and transcended the material ontology in the track of old materialism which to this day is still followed by some scholars. Liu Gang Ji's concept of practice not only initiated an advance in Marxist aesthetics of practicum …
Postmodernity, Hegemony, Sexuality, Alderson David
Postmodernity, Hegemony, Sexuality, Alderson David
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Michel Foucault influentially dismissed 'Freudo-Marxism' in his History of Sexuality, vol. 1. This paper, by contrast, proposes a critique of postmodern theory, as well as theories of postmodernity, in proposing a return to the preoccupations of Herbert Marcuse in relation to sexuality. Specifically, the paper suggests that we must take account of the transformations in capitalism that have taken place since Marcuse's time when revisiting his work, but that his category of the performance principle is now even more relevant than it was when he elaborated it. Nonetheless, his theory of repressive desublimation is revised as repressive incitement, and a …
The Concept Of "Tianji" In Ancient Chinese Literary Criticism Under The Perspective Of Phenomenology, Jing Zhang
The Concept Of "Tianji" In Ancient Chinese Literary Criticism Under The Perspective Of Phenomenology, Jing Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper attempts to reflect the concept of "tianji (Heaven's secret)" from the perspective of phenomenology. It claims that "tianji" is an important concept in literary creation theory, and it maintains that the understanding of the concept should focus on the following five elements: 1) the accidental moment of spirituality in the aesthetic subject, 2) artistic vitality, 3) the intrinsic aesthetic formation, 4) the aesthetic intention within the aesthetic subject, and 5) the secret power of universe and nature. The paper claims that quite a few concepts in phenomenology can be used to illuminate our understanding of "tianji." The theory …
The Mythistorical Pattern In The Studies On Origins Of Civilization, Qian Wang
The Mythistorical Pattern In The Studies On Origins Of Civilization, Qian Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The concept of mythistory is developed in the period of the New Historiography, and it is closely related to the changing concept of history. Mythistory takes mythology as a narrative origin of history, and thus the fundamental confrontation between mythology and history is dissolved. In the research on the origins of civilization, the mythistorical pattern aims to explore how myths enter history, and to investigate the shaping function of myths in the formation of civilization. Advocators of this pattern generally agree that the mythology as metahistory is the narrative dynamic mechanism behind the emergence of history.
The Rhetoric Of "New Manchu": With A Focus OnNew ManchuMagazine In Puppet Manchurian State, Xiaoli Liu
The Rhetoric Of "New Manchu": With A Focus OnNew ManchuMagazine In Puppet Manchurian State, Xiaoli Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Manchukuo, a puppet state of Japan in the northeastern part of China, tried to create an ideology of New Manchu. This paper explored how Manchu was turned into New Manchu, and then discussed the imperialist logic behind the rhetoric of New Manchu. The logic implied that Japan was advanced, civilized and attractive but Manchu was underdeveloped, inferior and uncivilized. Further to the assumption was that Manchu needed to be educated and transformed by Japan. The paper proceeded to discuss who could be the happy subjects under the governance of Manchukuo, and from there the paper tries to deconstruct the hypocritical …
On Liu Xizai's Paradox About The Exhaustibility Of Meaning, Xingchuan Tao
On Liu Xizai's Paradox About The Exhaustibility Of Meaning, Xingchuan Tao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Liu Xizai in his General Principles of Arts proposed a paradoxical idea about exhausting the inexhaustibility of meaning with the inexhaustible, and this paper claims that his idea points at the fundamental function of aesthetic creativity. The ideas developed in Liu's book cover two sides. On the one hand, the book explicates the concept of the inexhaustibility of meaning from three aspects: the infiniteness of the macro and the micro dimensions, the incompatibility between language and meaning, and the infiniteness in the finiteness. On the other hand, the book explains the approaches to exhaust the inexhaustible from three aspects: writing …
Theoretical Traces Of Raymond Williams' "Structures Of Feeling" And "Cultural Materialism", Jifang Duan
Theoretical Traces Of Raymond Williams' "Structures Of Feeling" And "Cultural Materialism", Jifang Duan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Structures of Feeling" is an important concept in Raymond Williams' aesthetic theory of "Cultural Materialism", and it is the starting point of his Marxist aesthetics and underlies the different stages of his theoretical development. The concept of "the structure of feeling" provides both an anchor point for retrospective criticism on his cultural materialism aesthetics and a point of departure for delineating the trajectory of his theoretical development and implications. The paper advocates a close reading of theory as it may provide an important approach to understand Williams' Marxist cultural theory as that it represents a way to break away from …
Critique Of Foucault's Theory Of Discourse, Xian Zhou
Critique Of Foucault's Theory Of Discourse, Xian Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"French theory" is another expression for the post-structuralist thought in France, with Foucault's theory of discourse being the most influential, and constructivism lies at the core of the theory. On the one hand, the theory of discourse highlights the function discourse performs in constructing subjectivity and the reality; on the other hand, it aims to reveal the symbiotic relation between the power and knowledge behind discourse. Thus, the theory dissolves the cognitive agency of the subject while foregrounding the subject's construction of discourse, and it highlights the representational practice of discourse while forecloses the social material practice of the non-discourse. …
Dialectics Between Politics And Literature: On Overseas Studies In Chinese Literature, Jin Ji
Dialectics Between Politics And Literature: On Overseas Studies In Chinese Literature, Jin Ji
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper surveys and reflects on the overseas researches on the relationship between Marxism and modern Chinese literature. Through critical analyses of major studies on Left-Wing literature and writers as well as case studies sinicization of Marxist aesthetic ideology, the paper tries to expose the struggle between knowledge and power and reveal the complexity of mutual stimulus between internal and external factors. The paper points out that the study of the sinicization of Marxism should discard the grand historical narrative with one dominant voice and be re-positioned into the multiple voiced historical site. The paper concludes that overseas studies have …
Four Characteristics Of Ancient Chinese Aesthetics, Fa Zhang
Four Characteristics Of Ancient Chinese Aesthetics, Fa Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper maintains that four characteristics can be observed about Chinese ancient aesthetics. The first one is concerned with the Chinese view of the cosmos, the second with Chinese view of the human world, while the third is concerned with the fact that Chinese theoretical norm is developed through a culture emphasizing on its totality instead of differentiality, the fourth with the cultural variety during the historical development.
Genre Criticism In Ming Dynasty And Zhu Yao'sThe Genre Of Ancient Rhapsody, Shihai He
Genre Criticism In Ming Dynasty And Zhu Yao'sThe Genre Of Ancient Rhapsody, Shihai He
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Zhu Yao's Gufu Bianti (The Genre of Ancient Rhapsody) is not only an important anthology of fu (rhymed prose, rhapsody) but also a comprehensive critical work on rhapsody. The anthology encompasses a selection of rhapsody texts and essays on the history and genre of rhapsody. It presents a systematic genre criticism which takes the six principles of poetry and exposition of personal sentiments as its criteria while taking prefatory notes and titular interpretation in ancient critical tradition as its approach, and its criticism is rich in content and logical in organization with valuable theoretical insights. The work has exerted a …
Literary Debates And Paradigm Shifts In Overseas Studies Of Modern Chinese Literature, Zhang Yingjin
Literary Debates And Paradigm Shifts In Overseas Studies Of Modern Chinese Literature, Zhang Yingjin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
By way of reviewing paradigm shifts as manifested in three literary debates, this paper contends that overseas studies of modern Chinese literature never contain only one single voice but rather follow a trajectory similar to institutional changes and paradigm shifts in the humanities in Euro-America. As theories come and go inside and outside China, Chinese experiences have been pluralized and complicated by today’s fast development of globalization and therefore demand an exploration from multiple and even mobile perspectives.
On Plato's Religious Justice And Artistic Justice, Yun Wang
On Plato's Religious Justice And Artistic Justice, Yun Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper aims to probe into Plato's thoughts on religious justice and artistic justice through a critical reading of his Republic in terms of its contributions to the theory of justice. Plato's conceptualization of justice refers not merely to the justice in social life but also to religious justice and artistic justice, despite the fact that these term are not used explicitly per se. This paper argues that Plato's theorization of justice in The Republic proves to be the most distinctive and most valuable by putting justice in different perspectives from different areas.
Sinophone Literature And World Literature In Chinese, Fengliang Li, Ping Hu
Sinophone Literature And World Literature In Chinese, Fengliang Li, Ping Hu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Recent discussions regarding Sinophone literature demonstrate that overseas Chinese literary research circle is attempting to claim discursive power from the American sinological field and is making its way from the margin to the centre. Meanwhile, these overseas researchers, by adopting a decolonizing and decentralizing approach, try to contest with mainland China's academic circle for dominant discursive power. Beneath the discussions is a strong sense of discursive politics. Sinophone literature and world literature in Chinese are remarkably different in terms of their respective value positions, theoretical approaches and research objectives, but researches on Sinophone literature can inform the formation of modern …
Technology, Apparatus And Meaning: Two Approaches To Myth Interpretation, Jing Rao
Technology, Apparatus And Meaning: Two Approaches To Myth Interpretation, Jing Rao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper reflects on the "Davos Debate" between Cassirer and Heidegger and attempts to put it into the perspective of mythical thinking. In the debate, Heidegger refuted Cassirer's latent transcendental subjectivity that underlay the discourse on the science-myth dichotomy. On the other hand, Cassirer's subjectivity is closely related to Heidegger's reflective critique on technology. Myth and technology are homological in the sense that they are both implicitly constructed in the "Gestell" (apparatus), and the double origins of apparatus open up two approaches of myth interpretation. Although the true meaning of myth interpretation lies in the dimension of existential renewal instead …
The Fragmented Ancient Chinese God System, Dake Zhu
The Fragmented Ancient Chinese God System, Dake Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Ancient Chinese mythology is different from those in other civilizations in its fragmentariness, and the fragmented nature is the result of the collective destruction of historical documents in the pre-Qin feudal states burnt down all historical documents, on top of the massive burning of books and the burying-alive of Confucian scholars during the reign of the First Emperor of Qin. This silent "cultural revolution" in the pre-Qin and Qin era resulted in the destruction of the first generation of Chinese mythology. During the wave of Asian emigration, myth fragments from India, Iran and West Asia constructed the second generation of …
The Meta-Ethical Traits: Nothingness, Différance And Spectrology, Hongsheng Wang
The Meta-Ethical Traits: Nothingness, Différance And Spectrology, Hongsheng Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
One of the foremost problems that contemporary narrative ethics must respond to is whether meaning exists. This paper reviews the different Western versions of the death of God and the various understandings of "nothingness" among Chinese and Western thinkers, attempts to distinguish "nothingness" from "nihilism", and hopes to pin down the location of the meaning formation from multiple perspectives. It proceeds to investigate Derrida's "différance" and "spectrology" and positions deconstructionism in the meta-ethical dimension of post-philosophical thinking. The paper has also summarized the basic features of the meta-ethical dimension.
The Primitive State Of Antique Chinese Elenchus In Spoken And Written Style, Dalei Hu
The Primitive State Of Antique Chinese Elenchus In Spoken And Written Style, Dalei Hu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In antique Chinese writing, elenchus as a form of debate prose takes the form of spoken and written styles, and this paper takes this approach to examine the primitive state of the genre. The paper demonstrates three main aspects of the genre of elenchus in the ancient China. The first concerns with the context, setting and scene of elenchus and there are some principles in the oral elenchus. The second concerns with the functions of elenchus. The third concerns with the connotation of elenchus exhibited in the different styles of the genre. The genre of elenchus comes into being, the …
The Return Of Beauty?, Welsch Wolfgang
The Return Of Beauty?, Welsch Wolfgang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper argues that the so-called return of beauty propagated in the aesthetic discourse is actually a return of the topic "beauty." The paper puts forward three claims in support of the argument. 1) The opposition to beauty that we find in art theory from mid-nineteenth century onward and especially in the twentieth century was not directed against beauty in general, but against specific conceptions of beauty. 2) Contemporary pleas in favor of beauty have dubious reasons and effects. 3) The talk about the attractiveness of the beautiful or the sublime, breath-taking beauty and its universality is conspicuously absent from …
Multiethnic Worship: More Than Just Global Songs, Josh Davis
Multiethnic Worship: More Than Just Global Songs, Josh Davis
Symposium on Worship Archive
Visual art, scripture reading, video, responsive readings, and the list goes on. We will consider elements of a worship service (other than corporate singing) and how they can be intentionally multi-ethnic. We will give lots of practical examples that you can use right away in your local church contexts.
Building Better Partnerships, Norma De Waal Malefyt, Howard Vanderwell
Building Better Partnerships, Norma De Waal Malefyt, Howard Vanderwell
Symposium on Worship Archive
This is an interactive workshop to explore together how to build better worship-planning partnerships. What are the best strategies for working together week after week? Who should be involved? What are the pitfalls to beware of? What can/should each bring to the planning workshop?
How People Change, Duane Kelderman
How People Change, Duane Kelderman
Symposium on Worship Archive
Anyone working with congregations knows that change is difficult and deep change in people and organizations is rare. How do people and organizations change? This workshop describes four things that take place whenever people or organizations have significantly changed, and gives practical advice for leaders trying to facilitate such change.
The Taizé Community: Music And Prayer, Brad Berglund
The Taizé Community: Music And Prayer, Brad Berglund
Symposium on Worship Archive
This nuts and bolts workshop will focus on the music of the Taizé Community and their unique practice of sung prayer. Using the published resources available to us, we’ll take an in-depth look at how to create a Taizé-style prayer service, lead the music, choose scripture readings and involve soloists and instrumentalists.
Songs Of Celebration And Contemplation From East Africa, Jean Ngoya Kidula
Songs Of Celebration And Contemplation From East Africa, Jean Ngoya Kidula
Symposium on Worship Archive
Many peoples in different parts of the world are usually introduced to the performance of Christian religious song that emanates from the cultural and other background of those who initially bring the gospel to them. In many parts of Africa, these were the songs of missionaries from Europe or the Americas. However new songs have also been composed that bear the ‘missionary’ style, or embrace the various other musical languages of the converts. Among the most utilized in East Africa are songs in Kiswahili language. In this workshop, we will examine and perform some Christian songs of contemplation and celebration …
What Can We Learn From The Early Church About Worship?, Marva Dawn
What Can We Learn From The Early Church About Worship?, Marva Dawn
Symposium on Worship Archive
Those who were the closest to Jesus in time can teach us important things about worship. In this workshop we will look at the forms that were used in the earliest centuries of the Church to contemplate how we might use those elements in our worship today.
Praying The Lord’S Prayer, David Crump
Praying The Lord’S Prayer, David Crump
Symposium on Worship Archive
Jesus intended the prayer that he taught his disciples, which we call “the Lord’s Prayer,” to be a model prayer for their own devotion. In this workshop we will examine the meaning of each petition in its original setting and what it means for us to repeat these petitions today.
Theological Issues In Popular Praise-Worship Texts, Bert Polman
Theological Issues In Popular Praise-Worship Texts, Bert Polman
Symposium on Worship Archive
This workshop will include a report and discussion of a theological analysis project of some 290 most popular Praise-Worship song texts and their relationship to the currently prevailing version of Christianity which sociologists of religion have called Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.
Planning Worship With Hymnary.Org, Greg Scheer
Planning Worship With Hymnary.Org, Greg Scheer
Symposium on Worship Archive
In recent years, an explosion of resources and music styles has made worship planning an almost overwhelming task. Hymnary.org can help tame this process, allowing planners to search for songs by scripture, meter, lectionary, etc, and then narrow searches by denomination or year, and even restrict results to those hymnals in your own collection. This session will review the basics of using Hymnary.org, highlight new developments such as “featured hymns” and a streamlined user interface, and show how Hymnary. org can kickstart your worship brainstorming.
Global Resources For Integrating The Arts Into A Missional Life, Robin Harris, Brian Schrag
Global Resources For Integrating The Arts Into A Missional Life, Robin Harris, Brian Schrag
Symposium on Worship Archive
This workshop will feature resources to foster creativity and expand understanding of the intersection of worship, culture, and mission in your church or school setting. We’ll explore a new two-volume ethnodoxology handbook and manual (with DVD) for worship and mission in the global church. The authors/editors of these publications will offer ways you can benefit from them, whether planning and leading worship or teaching a Sunday School or college class.